First, I would like to say “Thank You” to my readers who still have the faith to check back once in a while to see if I have posted. I know it has been a long time, but I have been very busy with promoting the book and starting the radio show.
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Now, on to the writing of THIS story. It would seem that the people of Mexico are perfectly content with the way their economy is (or isn’t!) going down there. The small piece of good news that I extrapolated from the Newsday.com article, “Mexicans vote 'no' on oil reform in nonbinding referendum; turnout low,” is that their president, Felipe Calderon, is actually trying to improve economic conditions for the Mexican people. Kind of an unusual move for Mexican politicians, I must say!
In the afore-mentioned article, written by Olga R. Rodriguez, an AP writer, Mexico’s President Calderon is said to have brought up a non-binding resolution to allow private firms to help Mexico’s state-owned-and-operated oil exploration and drilling process, as the government’s skills and abilities are limited when it comes to exploring deep water oil reserves.
In the referendum held Monday, folks in Mexico City opposed Pres. Calderon’s bill by a whopping eighty percent! Just as sad is the fact that only 820,000 Mexico City residents voted. And there was only an eleven percent turnout nationwide.
Mexico’s oil industry was taken over by the Mexican government in 1938, and apparently, the country’s constitution doesn’t allow private or foreign companies to be given “concessions,” says the Newsday article.
This just totally baffles me. If the economy in Mexico is so bad that one-half of its population is now living “North of the border,” (and yes, I know its not one-half) then something HAS GOT to be done. Why can the people of Mexico not see this?
All you hear from pro-illegal alien forces is how poverty-stricken those poor Mexicans are, and how the only humane thing to do would be to open up the borders. Well, here is a chance for them to improve, and 80% of them vote to reject it. I honestly have no earthly idea why, but apparently that’s ‘how they roll’ South of the border.
Here our liberal government is blocking the majority of Americans who want to drill domestically, and there they have a government wanting to drill, and the majority of the citizenry is blocking it. Is this a strange world or what?
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